White Papers

A Totally Redundant & Virtualized Infrastructure Solution (75.28 KB)
Winchester System’s v-IP Storage Appliances provide a set of robust features that allow Winchester System’s ultra fast, hardware centric FlashDisk RAID arrays to also be configured with complete redundancy, including snapshots, mirroring and remote replication. v-IP positions and FlashDisk provides a very affordable and much lowe r cost alternative to Dell Equallogic, Netapp, and other storage vendors while maintaining simplicity and performance.
Snapshot Backup and Recovery with FlashDisk VX-3400 Series Disk Arrays (190.22 KB)
The new FlashDisk VX-3400 Series with storage services embedded in the on-board RAID controllers provides snapshot backup and recovery as well as mirroring, volume copy and FlashD2D tiered, primary to secondary disk-to-disk backup.
Microsoft VSS-Consistent Snapshots for Exchange Servers with FlashDisk VX-3400 Series Disk Arrays (1.59 MB)
FlashDisk now offers snapshot capability that provide coherent images for Oracle, Exchange, SQL and other databases by integrating with Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Services (VSS). FlashDisk provides a server-based agent that coordinates with VSS to ensure database quiescence at the moment of snapping to ensure database coherence upon recovery.
Deploying FlashDisk Data Storage with VMware (563.52 KB)
Nineteen FlashDisk models are certified VMware Ready and deliver the high speed, expandable high capacity and data integrity using dual parity RAID 6. This white paper shows how easy it is to deploy FlashDisk in VMware environments.
High Speed RAID 6 (200.47 KB)
FlashDisk with “High Speed RAID 6” is a disk array that uses today’s “enterprise class” Fibre Channel, SAS or SATA disk drives, protects against two drive failures and ensures the successful completion of rebuilds by providing RAID 5 protection after a single disk drive failure – and does so at high speed. Thus, “High Speed RAID 6” offers vastly superior protection from permanent data loss – increasing the MTDL (mean time to data loss) by 2 to 4 orders of magnitude. While simple in concept, “High Speed RAID 6” is not yet available from most major commercial storage vendors.
Fast, Secure and Affordable Security and Surveillance Video Data Storage (155.96 KB)
Digital storage is ideal for today’s Security and Surveillance Video. As storage requirements get large, the quality, reliability and affordability of the data storage systems become paramount. FlashDisk RAID disk arrays provide the high performance, data integrity, data portability and low cost needed.
Red Hat High Availability Clusters (102.22 KB)
Almost all core business applications—ERP, CRM, sales force automation, inventory, supply chain management—can benefit from high availability clustering. The attractive economics of Linux high availability clusters combined with the low cost of high performance RAID storage makes it possible to extend high availability to a broader set of business activities. Even email servers, for example, could be clustered for high availability in organizations where email has become a critical tool and a shutdown would be very disruptive. Similarly enterprises can benefit when domain services, directory services, security systems, e-commerce servers, and even standard file servers are clustered for high availability.